>longtime static member resigned today >finally feeling burnout >Everyone else in the group is feeling it as well >Criterion dungeons only give materia and a mount.
Fitting for Endwalker to be my groups final expansion
Yeah this game is pretty ass outside of exploring a whole new expansion. Outside of doing savage and ultimates, the game is literally just a click a point. My group imploded during DSR because we had a sociopath tank who would write every single mistakes people did while progging in an excel sheet and the last raid night he started hitting everyone with the bosses auto attack cleave because someone pointed out he got a DMG down debuff and found out he had half the static muted on voice. Goes to show majority of people who play this game are fricking insane and I don't want to deal with PF this tier so I'll wait and see if I can get a group for the next tier in 6.4.
>Progress on criterion dungeons?
Got to the final boss in a lock out but then had to quit there cause people had to go. So far pretty enjoyable and a nice break from Savage. The patrol / stealth-esc section before the second boss was neat if a bit hectic, enjoyed seeing something different from the usual "pull trash, kill it" stuff.
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
0 cause worthless >Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
No cause worthless >Progress on criterion dungeons?
Worthless. I deleted my Manuscript cause the glam sucks and Materia X? Frick off.
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
0 cause worthless >Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
No cause worthless >Progress on criterion dungeons?
Worthless. I deleted my Manuscript cause the glam sucks and Materia X? Frick off.
Ok anon here is my take they re canceled artifact weapons design like paladin that got the Griffin logo on the shied and the gay designers prefer the shield with wing and"lightbringer" for female and gays players appeal
FFXIV went from MMORPG with story and content (ARR and HW) to story heavy with less and less worthwhile content (ShB and EW).
6.25 was a slap in the face. The relic quest is done under 1 minute if you have enough astronomy tokens.
he's referring to the tomestone exchange for weapons after varis gave you one for free
>never did raids >only dow/dom 2 jobs
I still had enough to do in ARR or even HW. ShB/EW is just login do something for around a hour and go offline again.
And every bullshit sidecontent that the team is doing is bad. AND only done by people at release.
Nobody is doing island sanctuary now. And the same goes for variant/criterion dungeon. ALREADY DEAD and only after two days.
you didn't even pretend to read what he said, 3/10 see me after class
I see what you're saying but atleast the Shadowbringers one involved the lead up to a trial and once of the best solo instances in the game. Both also lead to exploration zones, the best content in the game.
>once of the best solo instances in the game. Both also lead to exploration zones, the best content in the game.
The bozja quest with cid was horrible. Bozja was and is horrible.
Eureka was somewhat okay... mediocre. But Bozja is like 2 maps in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
>But Bozja is like 2 maps in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
I'm drunk sorry. I mean to say:
But Bozja is like do a map for 2 days in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
the stuff with cid was cool, but then it turn a nosedive the instant you stepped into the southern front
if we had more weird memory locations it would've been cool imo
>never did raids >only dow/dom 2 jobs
I still had enough to do in ARR or even HW. ShB/EW is just login do something for around a hour and go offline again.
And every bullshit sidecontent that the team is doing is bad. AND only done by people at release.
Nobody is doing island sanctuary now. And the same goes for variant/criterion dungeon. ALREADY DEAD and only after two days.
not that guy, but the lack of a new exploration zone is a huge blow to the amount of interesting content this expac. v/c dungeons are nice, but it's painfully obvious that they're just the side content (BA, CLL, DR, etc) that WOULD'VE accompanied those zones made out to be some big new feature as if they aren't quantifiably LESS than what we've gotten in the past.
I never raided before, how do I go about getting into raiding? I have always been pretty scared of fricking up so I have generally stayed away from it despite always wanted to get into raiding. I do not have any friends or made any friends so I can't get in with them so I need to start from 0. I main NIN btw if it matters.
Queue for first normal raid of Alexander, do them in sequential order and enjoy story. Same for Omega, Eden and Pandaemonium. Binding Coils of Bahamut isn't part of normal raid rotations for its difficulty and you're not really missing much but check the PF if you want to do it anyways (if you're making your party, mention you're a first timer; you'll get Wondrous Tails addicts helping you for tomestones and second chance points).
If you're satisfied by the difficulty level of normal, hooray. If you want something harder, move on to EX trials. Harder than that and requiring more coordination are Savage raids.
do min level no echo early savage/extreme if you don't have max level or want to do early raids. It is still gimped experience, but at least the mechanics will somewhat matter.
If you have max, just go into current savage.
You probably would want to get a feel for things and do EXs first or maybe even pug the first boss of the tier if you are confident enough. Look for PFs for beginners and people are usually pretty helpful. Past that I would look for a static which is easier said than done and usually will have you using shit like Discord. Still the pay off of a static is immensely helpful.
Right now isn't a too bad time to start trying though since the tier has matured enough that its only a matter of learning a couple strategies per boss, thought I don't know how hard it will be to make groups, you might have to just form them yourself.
Out of the new ones? Just Reaper, will probably get Astrologian eventually. Total I have uhh... Summoner Book and Bard Bow from ARR, Ast/DRK/SMN from HW, nothing from Stormblood and I quit the Shadowbringers DRK relic when I saw the last step and how ugly it looked, just destroyed all my motivation to finish it.
>no you do not understand if they put real rewards to all the new content types they're adding that aren't just more minions and mounts to be lost in your minion catalog people would feel PRESSURED to PLAY THE VIDEO GAME and that causes anxiety and is no good!
lol
lmao
And in the end Criterion is just basically a regular dungeon but with Extreme primal level of jump-rope, because the devs don't know how to do anything else, only there's no reason to actually do it more than once.
not a once have i ever seen a guy run in and flail his dick around about lazy devs and simon says, and actually have a suggestion for what should be done differently
it's always just whining it's not another game
What they should've done for dungeons specifically is that they should've been more open with tighter timer so you have to plan your way through the dungeon, maybe mob positions change between instances because you know it's fricking variant and shit, the bosses are fine, they're never going to deviate from preset timelines because that's the only thing their engine can handle, but once again "difficult" content requires no crowd control, no interrupts, this isn't a real MMO, it's a tab-targeting action game.
Xivg has been like that since 2013-2014, this is nothing new and it's always been poster drama too when that general moved a lot slower before wowrefugees and other gays came along
FFXIV is the first mmorpg where I unsubbed so many times.
I was really happy with the foundation they did with ARR after the 1.0 disaster. But they jumped the shark with Shadowbringers. I miss the times where could no life mmorpgs and still had enough gameplay to do.
Even Guild Wars 1 was more mmorpg than FFXIV.
>>okay what should they do instead
Do what old mmorpgs did. Long, worthwhile grinds, don't focus too much on a bad story or atleast have good written and straight to the point dialogues. And don't make side content that is completly seperated from the quest.
People only did things like island sanctuary because it came with a new update and most people have nothing to do.
>never again gonna have the experience of uninstanced instances in early Mangos era of WoW private servers when the opposite faction could jump at you at any time
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's a instanced dungeon. That was one of the main features of vanilla wow. Instead of every player runs through the dungeon a instance for your grp was created. And Blizzard did it really good. The shit was mind blowing back in 2004.
Now you got teleported to some place without visual connection.
2 years ago
Anonymous
its not a dungeon. its too big. dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork, like ragefire chasm, deadmines, wailing caverns, blackfathom deeps, shadowfang keep, stockades, razorfen kraul, scarlet monastery (x4), razorfen downs, uldaman, maraduon, dire maul, zul'farrak, temple of atal hakkar, scholomance, stratholme, blackrock spire, etc. i can keep going into later expansions if you want
2 years ago
Anonymous
>its not a dungeon. its too big. dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork
Look up a map of any Everquest dungeon
2 years ago
Anonymous
wow is more relevant to the topic as A: its much, much larger and B its design philosophies are adapted in FFXIV
>but its older
but its not more influential is it. this is why dungeons in both games are like scarlet monastery wings
2 years ago
Anonymous
>everquest >not more influential
Zoomies were a mistake.
2 years ago
Anonymous
so tell me, why are FFXIV dungeons hallways, modern wow dungeons are hallways, lost ark dungeons are hallways, new world dungeons are hallways, while EQ has uninstanced zones with raid bosses that appear in them?
why are all the ffxiv dungeons scarlet armory wing and not darkwood keep?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I never saw bigger moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
my goalpost is more relevant because A: I picked it up and B: I moved it
stupid fricking nig
2 years ago
Anonymous
>dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork
You are too young to post here
2 years ago
Anonymous
meaningless forks are soul zoomie
2 years ago
Anonymous
BRD is the perfect dungeon. A great mix between old school everquest and the modern approach of WoW.
AND I would enjoy a DEEP rush in a dungeon of female miqo'te BRD. If you know what I mean.
2 years ago
Anonymous
M+ is unironically the greatest content type ever added to an MMO
2 years ago
Anonymous
Are you enjoying your melee dps suffering cause a random bolt spawned?
FFXI was pure comfiness to grind with other people. I still in contact with many XI guys from the past.
In XIV every FC (or discord) is full with people who are social outcasts in their late 20s/early 30s and doing night life rp because they never had a real youth.
More randomized fight sections where you actually have to react on the fly and dodge shit. Basically make it so the fights are dynamic and not the same choreographed Simon says dance. But they can't because the engine would shit itself and the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
In other words >like most modern mmorpgs our game has not enough content thats worthwhile of your time >BUT do you know your house will be destroyed after 1,5 months if you don't enter it
I hate yewish-p so much
2 years ago
Anonymous
Simply don't buy a house? You don't need them for anything besides playing barbie
2 years ago
Anonymous
auto-demolish has been disabled for a good while now. also, why buy a house, you homosexual?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I hate how israeli Yoshida is being >I want to play this game without having to subscribe and pay money and get it for free and never lose anything of value ever
2 years ago
Anonymous
>>I want to play this game without having to subscribe and pay money and get it for free and never lose anything of value ever
anon never said anything like that
2 years ago
Anonymous
Would you rather be held hostage by mandatory grinds instead of being encouraged to jump in and out at your leisure whenever you feel like catching up with msq and doing some current content?
No mmo can organically keep people playing all the time.
You may not like it, but PVP is the exact solution to that problem since it's full of randomness. PVE is structured for balance and performance and equality. PVP is where a team at 1500 points mid game ends up losing to 2nd place which only had 400 points mid game. And all with a bunch of randoms on Onsal pre-PLD cheese nerf. It's beautiful chaos.
>But they can't because the engine would shit itself
They had to delete the belt slot because they couldn't create more items.
And the polygon flower pot thing was a marketing lie of Yoshi-P.
>But they can't because the engine would shit itself and the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
this isn't why, the reason is because the enrage timers are tightly tuned in a way where randomness could lead to patterns where its literally impossible to do enough damage in time with the minimum amount of gear required to enter the fight, which is what happened in gordias when they had fights that were more randomized and it was so shitty it almost killed the raiding scene in this game
Complete list of people who didn't like Gordias >Scrubs getting filtered by actually having to manage stances in A3S >Race autists mad about no week 1 clears
you will never get an asian mmo without enrage timers after all those people practically killed themselves taking double digit hour sessions with no breaks trying to do content in games like ff11 or various korean mmos
Bro you can just make it extremely lenient to account for randomness. Fights that require actual execution skill and improvisation are way more fun than ball crushing enrage timers that require you to open Excel and plan out every GCD and movement in advance.
The real difficulty in XIV raids is doing them blind and solving the puzzles, but 99% of players just use pre-solved strats, it's fricking boring
>the reason is because the enrage timers are tightly tuned in
Black person are you dumb? Have you learn nothing about the p8s fiasco with the nerf? They literally don't test enrage properly
>the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
Already feels like there's >900ms delay. >do a fight for the first time or after a while so I forget the choreography >circle appears on the ground >activate sprint and skidaddle the frick away >join others in the safe spot >orange circle disappears >boss does his big smash and particles appear on the formerly orange circle >me standing among others: die
How can anyone take the fight seriously in this game is beyond me.
And then you get the absolute peak morons who start defending it "like just learn the fight dood, that's what the skill is about dood".
Insstead of dodging mechanics and shit, I need to remember left right left left behind forward... yeah, frick you.
Randomized fight sections do not work with the game's current design philosophy esp in terms of healing. This change could be a good or a bad thing, but unless the 'randomized' sections were pretty much what we have with p8 i.e. a series of different patterns in random order and/or on random roles (which is what you get in most end savage and ultimate fights), it would just not work. It seriously fricks up mitigation, healing and movement plans for casters and can potentially frick up bursts for melees. You're basically asking for a completely different game.
>literal filler-tier song of some 6/10 Evanscence album
I like Soken's work and appreciate his effort for trying out different genres, but people will really eat up anything he makes and praise it as the second coming of the lord, no matter how mediocre it is
XIV in general doesn't have good field themes beyond ARR, Soken is great at hype music but they really need to bring in someone who can handle the calm tunes and put actual background music into the world. ARR gave them some good concepts to build on and FF11 especially was masterful at zone music but for some reason they've let XIV go off the rails and have not tried to improve it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>He has never stepped foot into the Raktika Greatwoods
Sad
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's memorable because of the memes, not because it's a good fitting song.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Heavensward had some great field themes but that was because it had a lot of guest composers besides Soken.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Two things I want to see moving forward, better field themes and better designs for overworld areas. It's really silly how good some of the dungeons look and yet the overworld is this barren half assed setup.
They remember the high highs, but now the stuff in-between besides raktika because memes. I've never heard ONE person mention the night themes to zones, which felt rewarding to listen to as they tie into the story, and all are vastly superior to their daylight counterparts.
What do the ShB night themes do in particular that makes them stand out thematically? They're just somber piano renditions like all the other night themes.
Finished the easy variant dungeons and got the mount. Had to do the secret stuff by myself since trying to direct a PUG to do them is like herding cats
I unsubbed after finishing Shadowbringers because the sheer amount of fricking cutscenes and "right click this spot and wait 15 seconds while your guy looks around" types of quests just fricking killed my enjoyment. The gameplay for reaper and black mage is fun but when you only get to fight 25% of the time and the other 75% is just listening to some butthole talk about JRPG shit, it just makes you burn out quick
I started to skip the story mid shadowbringers and never regret it. I'm just playing XIV for gameplay and doing raids or old content with my boys.
Story of EW or even the new Hildy one? No idea. It's just too text heavy. And I love games like Baldurs Gate 2, etc. But damn XIV is so bad written.
I started to skip the story mid shadowbringers and never regret it. I'm just playing XIV for gameplay and doing raids or old content with my boys.
Story of EW or even the new Hildy one? No idea. It's just too text heavy. And I love games like Baldurs Gate 2, etc. But damn XIV is so bad written.
The point of all the dialogue is that the writers are inviting you to create a world inside of your head that you can explore and live in. This concept is totally alien to people who grew up with cell phones that killed their attention span and imagination, but it’s actually possible to use your imagination and create your own interesting headcanon while the story nudges you along. A ton of effort was put into making FF14 a mostly self-consistent and deep world-building experience.
It’s the type of game for people who read books. I played Baldur’s Gate 2 as well, but it’s not much different from a well-crafted D&D campaign… in other words, another type of game for people who know how to read and have an imagination. It’s not for everyone.
>The point of all the dialogue is that the writers are inviting you to create a world inside of your head that you can explore and live in >chosen one story where you're forced to have the same experiences as everyone
XI inspired you to create your own world inside your head. XIV was made so it's players didn't need to think much.
This players are no morons. They just want the gameplay and not a bad written story. Compare XIV to other FF games. Every FF game (besides XIV) has quirky and straight to the point dialogues. It's fun to read.
>the story? nah bro. I just play for the gameplay.
But xiv's gameplay is trash. I mean, sure I enjoy doing the little dance that is job rotations, but overall the actual gameplay of xiv is garbage. I don't know why anyone would play it if you're not invested in the setting and/or story.
If you play xiv but don't care about the story at least a little bit, I don't know what you are doing. I really don't.
>XIV was made so it's players didn't need to think much.
This. XIVs story progress is hollywood-like. Just there to please you directly and not a real living world. Background lore is only there to explain the mainstory. Same goes for games like Call of Duty, nu-God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc.
>Background lore is only there to explain the mainstory
A lot of side stuff has nothing to do with the msq though. All those yellow sidequests that little the map? Almost all of those are either self contained stories or offer little tidbits about the world.
>In Baldurs Gate you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame >In Elder Scrolls you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame >In Deus Ex you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame >In souls games you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame >In most RPGs you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
Nothing like this is in XIV. XIV is maximum themepark.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Nothing like this is in XIV
That's all the little quests with stories attached to them though.
2 years ago
Anonymous
he made a long list of green text anon. you're out of your league. just give up now. don't analyze, just do what he says
2 years ago
Anonymous
No. Everything in XIV ends in "it's there to explain the main story".
The world is dead and feels always artificial.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Hows does a story about a lalafell alliance soldier looking for the fem highlander resistance fighter that captured his heart on the battlefield tie into the msq?
2 years ago
Anonymous
It happens in Eorzea and is therefore tied to the MSQ, checkmate libcuck
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's just ingame npc doing his thing. Do you never played real RPGs? With all the letters, books, etc.?
2 years ago
Anonymous
go to the library, homie
2 years ago
Anonymous
>It's just ingame NPC doing his thing.
Oh yeah. I bet he did his thing all up inside that thighlander. Women can't resist the lalabull.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This. The world is artificial and feels always dead.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You have literally never touched a sidequest and it shows.
2 years ago
Anonymous
inb4 That ARR quest was clearly setting up the stage for the new 6.25 content they had already planned 10 years ago!!
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's all 1.0 stuff. Most lore stuff is still from the 1.0 team and was just reusded from Yoshi-P.
The stuff they made themself is shit. See the whole ascian/amaurot thing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Amaurot is great, and the Ascian stuff is just the Zilart from FFXI
2 years ago
Anonymous
It makes me sad how many people don't realize this is the truth. Hopefully they borrow Wotg or Adoulin for the next arc.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Another zodiark Black person mad the fujo turned the mustache twirling saturday morning cartoon villains into tragic characters.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This is true. All the Eorzean city-states have strange and obvious distinctions that separate them from modern cultures. All their governments are strange and operate in strange ways. Every nation and culture introduced outside of Eorzea is an expy of a real-world culture and either a kingdom or, god forbid, another fricking republic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>All the Eorzean city-states have strange and obvious distinctions that separate them from modern cultures. All their governments are strange and operate in strange ways.
Is this homie for real?
The only one you can say that about is gridania and that's only because they have the schizo elementals to worry about.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Ul'dah is technically a monarchy but in function it's actually a theo-plutocracy run by a church of death and taxes. Commerce is very literally their religion, and that influences their society in unique ways beyond it just being ancap paradise.
Limsa barely has a system of government. They didn't have real written laws until around 15 years ago. Their ruler is decided by a boat race every 7 years, but Merlwyb decided term limits don't apply to her, wrote a bunch of laws, and turned Limsa into a military dictatorship that somehow also idolizes freedom.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>some cultic tree huger state >some "we were good pirates" states >some fantasy arabian night states contolled by merchants
Yes, 1.0 states were better than Yoshi-Ps things. Even the garlean empire became demystified. From the massive super power to some we wuz farmers and shit BUT
2 years ago
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>okay they're not actually that special >b-but!
I accept your concession.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not the same anon but he's right. the garleans are just farmers that got strong because remember us-kun made them strong.
Everything after HW killed the XIV story. Now the whole story is a huge mess.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Not the same anon but
Shut the FRICK up, samegay.
2 years ago
Anonymous
We don't know yet if Emet had anything to do with the Garleans when they were still the Gougans, and the Gougans made all sorts of incredible shit that goes way beyond their Garlean tech. Their time as farmers only came after they accidentally the ocean.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>there's a giant hole in the middle of the ocean >nobody ever talks about it
2 years ago
Anonymous
if you don't talk about or think about the hole it can't hurt you. naming it gives it dominion over you
2 years ago
Anonymous
Didn't talk or think about a sad bird either and that didn't seem to work
2 years ago
Anonymous
>UGH MUH SOVLFVL PIRATES, MUH SOVLFUL FRENCH CRVSADERS, MVH SOVLFUL DESERT israeliteS, MUH SOVLFUL SVBSAHARAN AFRICANS
yeah no you fricking moron only Gridania has a novel concept behind it everything else has been done to death in fantasy already
2 years ago
Anonymous
sad but true
2 years ago
Anonymous
And no one will apologize like they should.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Void archdemons is boring the ancient shit wasnt so original and a lot better but i was made well in ShadowBlack folk, now endwalker frick it up all revealing ancients were just greek elves without long necks and knife ears
2 years ago
Anonymous
anon you're clearly a shadowbaby or EWfetus, XIV's lore is remarkably internally consistent wherever the fujo didn't rub her dirty hands on things. you would only not realize this if you've only played the fujo expansions.
we've known about the war between ul'dah and sil'dih since at least 2014, and it literally just got 12 pages of lore dump that expand on what we know in interesting ways without retconning anything we knew before.
2 years ago
Anonymous
see
That's all 1.0 stuff. Most lore stuff is still from the 1.0 team and was just reusded from Yoshi-P.
The stuff they made themself is shit. See the whole ascian/amaurot thing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What the frick are you talking about? You learn a tonne of random lore about places that aren’t in the game yet. Just right off the top of my head we had Thavnairian items and clothes for years before they were in the game, the current plot constantly makes mention of Merycidia (and has since ARR) and the entire BLU questline revolves around the new world.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Amaurot was that until fujo frick it.up with MUH TIME TRAVEL CAUSE FF1 WAS A TIME LOOP ASPULL IN THE POWERPOINT ENDING EXPLAINING SHIT IN NES
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
1 for WAR because it's my main job, but now I'm trying to get the Gunblade because it looks great >Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
It's only been 2 days >Progress on criterion dungeons?
haven't even tried it. I was hoping that ASS normal was gonna be EX tier, but I've heard that the first boss is harder than most Savages so far, and I don't have a group, nor am I fricking PFing that shit.
As for the Variant dungeons, already got all of the endings, the skink and the silkie minion, the emote, and the chest for the fedora outfit. Still need the rest of the outfit and 2 TT cards
pretty good patch overall
I did the Stormblood and Shadowbringers extremes homosexual, doesn't save the game from catering to Limsa Lominsa AFK trannies taking pictures of their catgirl or rabbit for Instagram
I'm far from obtaining the weapon since I was successfully ignoring the memebrand quests until now (and still far from completing it).
But what are the next phases of the weapons now that there's no dedicated zone tied to it?
XIV fishing is suffering from the same problem like everything else in XIV. Just bloat it to make it look complex. I still prefer fishing like the one from Lotro or WoW.
Just find a comfy spot, click sometimes and enjoy the atmosphere.
But you can do exactly that... Grab a versatile lure and you can Cast and then Reel every 20-30 seconds or so. If you're really casual you also have the incentives of getting new fish every now and then or personal fish size records without putting in any effort.
>try to make "midcore" content that doesn't require 20+ players >due to isync everyone only wants raid BiS >no rewards or gear for doing the harder version as alternate gearing
Lmao bravo Yoshida. We're absolutely going back to Eureka next expansion.
Criterion and especially Criterion Savage should have had a better reason to do it. Even item level 625 gear or something. The relics should have at least been 616 or something so it's not just an EX weapon. I get they didn't want to piss off raid autists by changing BiS but letting it be catch up content or have any real reward besides an ugly mount would've been better. I did it just to do it, but I'm also moronic enough to have done every raid BLU can even shit like Chaos and Cruise Chaser for the experience of doing it so I don't really consider it "normal" behavior.
Not passing off raiders is such a canned excuse. What raider isn't alresdy BiS by now or close to it that they wouldn't be bothered? If someone is starting, not raiding actively, or just bad then so what? Them having a higher ilvl isn't going to magically make them a better raider or "devalue" a week one clear or something. XIV has always been the easiest game to catchup in.
>have a healer deficit problem >have the chance to create content to help people gear up other jobs, which might encourage people to try different jobs >"Nah, here's another mount"
Bruh
hildibrand sucked this time around. cutscenes were wackier than ever but feels like nothing happened. took us essentially 2 patches just got hildy back to eorzea proper
Also the guest npc is just an average conspiracy guy instead of a poor guy loosing his shit i dunno put a fricking racist garlean of the moon as third npc for better comedy
It is still unclear if the devs can tell if my og markers are legit or not and if that’s bannable. They aren’t legit and Ive been using them every week. I guess after this change no one will care
>the story? nah bro. I just play for the gameplay.
But xiv's gameplay is trash. I mean, sure I enjoy doing the little dance that is job rotations, but overall the actual gameplay of xiv is garbage. I don't know why anyone would play it if you're not invested in the setting and/or story.
why do ffxi players go into other game's threads to try to recruit people? is 10% is not enough? you need to crack their eggs first? why do they never mention its pay 2 win?
SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SO MVCH FVCKIN SOVL God fricking damn I miss quests actually being QUESTS FRICK. Maybe I should quit, was holding out on Criterion dungeons but it's not at all what was promised, just another savage raider toy to one and done.
>the only thing the warring homies needed to solve their world-ending conflict was a chat and some salad
Frick's sake, they took one of the visually and thematically coolest dungeons and completely neutered it with this "we can save them" bullshit. God I fricking hate Japan.
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST FIND COMMON GROUND WITH YOUR BITTER ENEMY! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HATE THEM UNCONDITIONALLY BECAUSE... YOU JUST ARE OKAY?!
What american politics does to an mf'er
They're unkillable dynamis recreations all stuck together on a pile of shit at the edge of the universe who can't hurt one another in any way that matters, there's nothing for them to do except get along. All the originals are still long dead.
>be anon >die in an apocalyptic war that consume your entire species >suddenly granted another chance at life >but so was one of those guys you don't like >WELP BETTER START THE WAR UP AGAIN
American moment
Anon ultima thule become dynamis hope shit at the end you have thancred teared as ambient ether by shit villian as the scions and then you pull emet ex machina
chad tanks: WAR, PLD, DRK, GNB
not chad tanks: none
if you're tank friend you're a chad simple as. the only person truly looking out for you is your other tank bro remember this. take this heart of corundum friend you need this brutal shell more than I do.
>casually duo-ing the variant dungeon with my best friend, trying to solve all of the riddles and secrets on our own with the hints in the survey reports
comfy
only the main one now, thanks for giving it to me a week after I got my 620 weapon yoship
bloodsworn with elephants, don't have any DoL/DoH past 60 and don't know if BTs alone can carry me to cap
very first got the "secret" ending with that bullshit boss who does the cannons
second one instead of honoring the fallen hero just woke him up and downed him
friend I ran with the first time got the pet and I got the TT card
don't know if I'll have the patience to run this thousands of times for that entire set, but kind of want to use the coat to make a flasher glam
One of the first story fricks up was the kugane/yugiri thing >thx to gerolt we now that stuff like radz-at-han exists. >some mysterious refugees from an unknown country appeared >nooo my face is so ugly I can't show >we have horses >some hours later thx to stormblood we know that fantasy japan was always trading with cities like radz-at-han which always traded with Ul'dah too. >BUT KUGAN WAS UNKNOWN >and where are the horses?
Yoshi-P and thew new team is so moronic. Or they have so many writers and everyone is doing his own thing.
>some hours later thx to stormblood we know that fantasy japan was always trading with cities like radz-at-han which always traded with Ul'dah too.
This was known since 1.0 because of the summer and New Years events. >BUT KUGAN WAS UNKNOWN
Kugane was known, Hingashi was first named in 1.0 I'm pretty sure. It's just the Au Ra they pretended were unknown until turning around and acting like they weren't. >and where are the horses?
They're on the Azim Steppe mostly.
The game just has a genuine and earnest feel to it that filters a lot of westoids, mostly americans. They can't handle good guys actually being good, or not being given 1 dimensional villains that they can just hate and feel good about killing.
One the contrary, they made clearing normally even more impressive. I'd get shit ton of /tells or just praise in shout whenever I'd clear on them on WHM.
You're just jealous of my 500k+ misery hits. I bet you tried flare star cheesev and still died like a total homosexual while everyone laughed at you and hated you for not giving them the mettle buff
It made flare cheese common, which I saw more people frick up than actually clear with. Bozja duels were also much more challenging so yes doing them normally was more satisfying to watch
The system was some good shit. >Endless Despair spam on BLM >Paper tank that needed CD's to live through raidwide but shit out damage >Ripping all the Enmity from a well placed Afflatus Misery
And instead of giving us a vastly improved version, we got a bigger dungeon with shit rewards. The side content this expansion has been disappointing as frick so far.
They might do it for Variants
Criterion, not so much. Unless it eventually gets an unsync option in the future, otherwise it'll be dead like DRS in the future.
DRS is more active after datacenter travel was introduced, not sure about other datacenters but EU datacenters have a total of 3-4 active discord servers that have weekly DRS runs. >discord
literally the only way
no way, 90% of the playerbase can't clear this criterion dungeon so they'll probably make relic grind related to variants which are much easier i just hope they keep this level of difficulty for criterions
>create twitter account to post pictures of my cute character >wake up and see 40 replies to it >super excited and go check the replies >it's all nft morons tagging me because some scam account says they'll give them nfts for free and all they have to do is tag someone >delete twitter
I beat Endwalker so I'm just doing whatever quests are left. There's 0 reason to grind for anything as XIV is a visual novel.
Took me 6 months to reach this point, it was fun and the MSQ had some great moments. Heavensward was the best expansion and I miss the simplicity of ARR, but Endwalker's ending was some deep feels even though the build up to the payoff was nowhere near Heavensward-tier which was basically an entire expansion's worth of buildup just to make you like Ishgard and its history.
Hermes' remembered words to Meteion and Emet's last lines were perfectly done even as a dub. It felt like blockbuster moments.
Take Eureka's interesting zone (mainly Anemos), expand on NMs, CE and Duels. Add a bit of RNG of something like a key dropping that can unlock a hidden unique dungeon that gives unique loot. Have a small middle section of the map with PvP where you lose some currency on death (I don't give a frick about balance here) amd making grinding out side of weekly/daily challenges somewhat worth it. Seems like a good starting point
>not pictured: needed 300 games played to get to crystal
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>tfw I got my first Warsteed my win percentage was 33%
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>NIN >WHM >Nerfing SCH for no reason >The obnoxious amount of CC >Purify and Guard are still fricking gambles >The god awful maps >WAR > MCH >BLM >SMN
lol
skill issue
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Of all the races to mod gigachad face you chose the original gay race
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Yeah, the PvP "team" really are hacks
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>NIN >WHM >Nerfing SCH for no reason >The obnoxious amount of CC >Purify and Guard are still fricking gambles >The god awful maps >WAR > MCH >BLM >SMN
lol
Eureka zones were pretty but Bozja nosedived in that regard. I'm starting to think bozja haters are just hating on whatever content matsuno released even though we have >ivalice raids (who doesn't like these) >Critical Engagements >Duels >CLL/Dalriada >DRS >Lost Actions (I still think lost actions being consumables is a mistake)
I did it but im pissed how restrictive and nazi is wiping compares to ultimates and the discord shit , the dungeon was good as it was more a functional mmo raid other than fighting one boss in a square and call it raid also lost actions consumables frick that
>ivalice
shit except the chad bangaas >ces
stupid >duels
broken and stupid >cll/dalraida
dead content >drs
trannie discord >lost actions
interesting but failed in implementation.
i'm not a fan of his writing, but bozja had stuff I like and the absence of similar content is notable, With it gone, the game practically has nothing for large group of players outside of Alliance Raids now.
>on whatever content matsuno released even though we have
I even don't know who this guy is but Bozja is shit so are the ivalice raids (pretty but the bosses have too much HP)
Do Limsa and Gridania even have the same potential for a cool dungeon as Ul'dah had? Gridania can do Gelmorra/Amdapor again but that's kinda overdone at this point.
Limsa could do a seas travel one. There's a lot west we have no idea about.
Gridania has Mooncat culture they've barely touched on. A Keeper Lost Woods dungeon could work.
Why does this underground dungeon exploration feel like secret dates with the Sultana?
Yeah and they’re all a fricking decade old. If fricking Allagan can own the past decade of story and spotlight, then my favorite fricking city that gets ZERO FRICKING SPOTLIGHT can get SOME.
We still need to see Locus Amoenus/Corvos which was heavily namedropped in 6.0, and the only other content that could be it for the EW patches is the deep dungeon.
> Do Limsa and Gridania even have the same potential for a cool dungeon as Ul'dah had? Gridania can do Gelmorra/Amdapor again but that's kinda overdone at this point.
Nym
Kobold mountains
Whatever is NORTH of the Kobold mountains (like half the island)
The missing 1.0 Sastasha sister dungeon
West Shroud
Ixal territory between the Shroud and Coeraths
>Ul’Dah is inarguably the most story-important city >Limsa Lominsa has had a significant amount of story focus in recent expansions at patches >Gridania gets literally nothing
if gridania gets any real focus they need to actually do something about the elementals, and if they do that they'd need to actually massively change gridania instead of just having the leader in charge go "we'll be good now :^)", which is too much work for what's objectively the least popular city in the game
Does anyone here use a Switch controller for PC?
I'm currently using DS5, but it's not as comfortable as the Switch controller for me. Especially the triggers.
The trick I have is I also enable another bar from holding L2 then R2 and holding R2 then L2. For the first I put general use things like emote, mount roulette, sprint, LB, etc., for the second I make it an exact copy of my upper left double L2. And then double tap R2 is for leftovers or AoE.
So really the double tap L2 is set up to display layout/cooldowns. Plus I put the more common stuff on the basic L2 and R2, and you can also put macros on R3 and L3 (which I did sprint on one, arms length+sure cast on the other).
After played a lot of PSO2 (base game not NGS) on controller, I kinda want to try XIV on controller as well, but it feels kinda wrong to play a MMO like that for my mind.
PSO2 was an exception since I played PSO on controller as well, but for me, a MMO is always M+KB, been playing like this since what...2007?
He pushed his children away to concentrate on his duty, he took the responsibility of saving their lives and everyone else's incredibly seriously, he blamed you for influencing them into walking constantly towards dangerous situations and kept the secrecy of an apocalypse looming all whilst even travelling to Garlemald, an aggressive recognized enemy, to save as many lives as he could.
He over did the pushing his children away shtick, it's one thing to tell them to frick off they don't know what they're talking about, it's another to disown them
i agree with you i just thought it wasnt needed. alphinaud has grown immensely and this stupid daddys issues arc wasnt needed. maybe for alisaie but not alphinaud. what a waste of time.
>You can exchange the criterion savage token for a shitty earring, a fricking banner for your house or ONE whole materia X
Giving just the title for the clear and nothing else would've been less insulting kek
>Fourchenault dedicates his life's work to building a space ship that would ensure his children's survival, no matter what, and is so terrified and anxious over their well beings he can't even stand listening to letters on their death defying adventures >in one timeline the twins just die unceremoniously from the Garleans gassing everyone
His life, assuming Sharlayan weren't as horribly affected by Black Rose because of their preparations, is hilariously tragic in the bad end timeline
On one hand, I'm kinda glad the V&C dungeons don't reward gear or upgrades because I would feel like I'd be ""forced"" to run it.
On the other hand, only offered 1 mount (for 20 clears???), materia and 1 housing item for it feel like a fricking slap in the face for how ball busting difficult it is.
>see hyur with wol new face >can only think as him as a souless npc >see the other hyur face >can only think of that homosexual who post the hyur getting vored >see ardbert face >only think as him as an npc
Why the frick Hyur have this problem. I just want to play as a human...
>Muh different factions like the warring state >muh dying land >muh mysterious disease >muh big empire guy >muh people behind the scenes manipulating the stuff >muh we dont like story beat faction
im starting to hate these jap tropes. odin looking like trailer wol is funny though.
Depends on what you want. If you like playing with them and you don't care about the speed of your clears, then you should stay.
If they're just "your static" and you don't really care either way, but you want faster prog, then you should leave.
If you don't leave and you're in the 2nd camp, a few weeks from now you'll probably start to resent them and have a meltie. Better to just say it outright and either ask them to change their schedule so you raid more unlikely, or just find a new group
Preparing for a new roof so 0 yet because I've not made it a super important deal to get the first relic since the grind is for the remainder of the expansion. Variant dungeon was fun to 100% while solo, probably won't touch the Savage ones since they can't be solo queued; nor do the rewards interest me. Beast tribes I've been good on, though, as those are typically always worth doing.
>reading through variant dungeon entries >an entry from one path tells you about Amalj'aa battle practices >following that practice on the right path opens a hidden door >the ending you get from that explains how to get another ending
I forgot how fricking cool it was to explore and discover in an MMO. I feel bad for anybody who had their experience ruined by datamining or spoilers.
>Going through middle path >Nanamo points out a torn Sil'dihn banner >Puzzle right after requires you to recreate it >Even if you fail, the final boss of the route has fruit on the helm, which Nanamo also points out so you'll figure it out for next time
The puzzles were definitely the best part of the variant dungeon. Hopefully they'll keep them for the next ones.
Your path is random after Geryon, and both parts have one half of the sil'dihn banner on them, too.
A friend and I sat down with tinfoil hats and ground out all the endings basically in one sitting, it was genuinely some of the most fun I've had in a long time. When he accidentally auto-walked past the incense burner and it became untargetable, I went full schizo theory and we got ending 1 as a result.
>People were complaining how the relics will be a joke because Manderville >PLD relic has the most aesthetic shield in the game
Based Godbert/Gerolt duo silencing the naysayers.
I'm exceedingly pleased with almost all of the relics this go of it, especially PLD's which outshines the actual set you get with the armor. Not that I don't like the big slab of steel you get, but a Hylian Shield is just as good
>kill Barbariccia >Papa Gruff still thinks he's hot shit
Bitch
Also do we and the "survivors" of the Thirteenth really have the right to just restore the shard to how it used to be, when the Voidsent have essentially become the world's new inhabitants and have their own society and sentience?
The Voidsent aren't a new civilisation: they're the same souls as before the cataclysm (see Zero, Scarmiglione and Barbariccia). All that restoring the shard would do is cure all these souls of their endless hunger, and restore them to their proper forms.
If they ever make role quests mandatory they will just remove the role requirements. Most of the role quests legit have nothing to do with the role itself.
>Hey, we need magical DPS in Ishgard to help us kill this flying dragon >Dragon lands and fights grounded the entire and the WoL is assisted by 2 melee >Hey, we need a ranged to help us kill this flying Blasphemy in Doma >It fights low to the ground and WoL is assisted by 2 melee and a healer
you'd have to change how the final fight of the SHB healer one works, but wouldn't be hard. iirc you also have to use Provoke at least once in both the shb and ew tank quests
>thread is started by somebody that isn't insane >amount of poor trolling and morons that respond to poor trolls drops significantly >no stormblood era jannies deleting the thread as claimed
All I do is raidlog
Literally everything else in the game is so fricking boring, if I wanted to watch a movie I'd just go watch a movie
You're mentally ill
Why?
Everyone who plays this game is mentally ill what's your point
Do you play other games too, Anon? You better, you don't sound like you're having a lot of fun
Yes, like I just said I only open XIV to raid
I love raiding but everything about the game is fricking abysmaa
>longtime static member resigned today
>finally feeling burnout
>Everyone else in the group is feeling it as well
>Criterion dungeons only give materia and a mount.
Fitting for Endwalker to be my groups final expansion
Ask if they wanna do treasure maps or something. Or finger eachothers' buttholes in Limsa plaza.
Pandemonium raid sucks hope it kis the raiding again but for being too easy shit and crap design
Least mentally insane MMO player
Yeah this game is pretty ass outside of exploring a whole new expansion. Outside of doing savage and ultimates, the game is literally just a click a point. My group imploded during DSR because we had a sociopath tank who would write every single mistakes people did while progging in an excel sheet and the last raid night he started hitting everyone with the bosses auto attack cleave because someone pointed out he got a DMG down debuff and found out he had half the static muted on voice. Goes to show majority of people who play this game are fricking insane and I don't want to deal with PF this tier so I'll wait and see if I can get a group for the next tier in 6.4.
Mazed wowbuck
>Progress on criterion dungeons?
Got to the final boss in a lock out but then had to quit there cause people had to go. So far pretty enjoyable and a nice break from Savage. The patrol / stealth-esc section before the second boss was neat if a bit hectic, enjoyed seeing something different from the usual "pull trash, kill it" stuff.
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
0 cause worthless
>Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
No cause worthless
>Progress on criterion dungeons?
Worthless. I deleted my Manuscript cause the glam sucks and Materia X? Frick off.
>more-or-less free Barbariccia EX weapons
>worthless
>Barbariccia EX weapons
Oh right I forget most of Ganker are shitters who cant balance raiding and lore properly. I repeat again, worthless.
You sound like a draining person to be around.
>get told the truth
>draining
Sorry, I forgot most ARR players need a hugbox to not harm their fragile emotions
How are you balancing lore if you're ignoring all the content because it doesn't give you some optimal autism reward?
Ok anon here is my take they re canceled artifact weapons design like paladin that got the Griffin logo on the shied and the gay designers prefer the shield with wing and"lightbringer" for female and gays players appeal
>implying I didn't get million totems because of how fun barbie ex was and gear up all my classes by now with 615 weapons
>of how fun barbie ex was
see
I want Big Barb to punch my nuts that’s something not every fight can satisfy
>0 cause worthless
ah a fellow "rush to do every single stage at the same time once the relic becomes BiS" player
Everything on standby until I finish getting all my jobs to 90. Only three healers left, the lowest at 81.
Fricking christ, so close.
I was still doing ARR tribes last I was subbed.
FFXIV went from MMORPG with story and content (ARR and HW) to story heavy with less and less worthwhile content (ShB and EW).
6.25 was a slap in the face. The relic quest is done under 1 minute if you have enough astronomy tokens.
You're a whole expansion too late to be announcing its death, the first step of Resistance weapons worked like that in Bozja too when it was added.
First step of Bozja weapons was a cool solo instance
And after that freebie............
>it was a total freebie after you did the thing for it
he's referring to the tomestone exchange for weapons after varis gave you one for free
you didn't even pretend to read what he said, 3/10 see me after class
I see what you're saying but atleast the Shadowbringers one involved the lead up to a trial and once of the best solo instances in the game. Both also lead to exploration zones, the best content in the game.
>once of the best solo instances in the game. Both also lead to exploration zones, the best content in the game.
The bozja quest with cid was horrible. Bozja was and is horrible.
Eureka was somewhat okay... mediocre. But Bozja is like 2 maps in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
>But Bozja is like 2 maps in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
I'm drunk sorry. I mean to say:
But Bozja is like do a map for 2 days in some map editor and place fates around the zone.
the stuff with cid was cool, but then it turn a nosedive the instant you stepped into the southern front
if we had more weird memory locations it would've been cool imo
>the stuff with cid was cool
It was a short quest in a call of duty hallway.
i mean more aesthetic wise
it instantly went to shit the exact moment you went into the memory garlean area
>i mean more aesthetic wise
>GOOD CONTENT
>a-a-aesthetic wise
Good content need only one thing to be good: good gameplay.
I enjoyed the critical engagements and the duels
>less and less worthwhile content
>NOOO ITS NOT CONTENT IF IT ISNT RAIDS
I never did a XIV raid and had enough to do in ARR.
You were grinding fates and leves endlessly in ARR since it was the only viable way to level up.
>never did raids
>only dow/dom 2 jobs
I still had enough to do in ARR or even HW. ShB/EW is just login do something for around a hour and go offline again.
And every bullshit sidecontent that the team is doing is bad. AND only done by people at release.
Nobody is doing island sanctuary now. And the same goes for variant/criterion dungeon. ALREADY DEAD and only after two days.
not that guy, but the lack of a new exploration zone is a huge blow to the amount of interesting content this expac. v/c dungeons are nice, but it's painfully obvious that they're just the side content (BA, CLL, DR, etc) that WOULD'VE accompanied those zones made out to be some big new feature as if they aren't quantifiably LESS than what we've gotten in the past.
You want again the stupid fates farming routes books from arr?
sure. It was fun to do with my bros
uhhh please don't use the b word chud it's tribal quest now
I never raided before, how do I go about getting into raiding? I have always been pretty scared of fricking up so I have generally stayed away from it despite always wanted to get into raiding. I do not have any friends or made any friends so I can't get in with them so I need to start from 0. I main NIN btw if it matters.
Queue for first normal raid of Alexander, do them in sequential order and enjoy story. Same for Omega, Eden and Pandaemonium. Binding Coils of Bahamut isn't part of normal raid rotations for its difficulty and you're not really missing much but check the PF if you want to do it anyways (if you're making your party, mention you're a first timer; you'll get Wondrous Tails addicts helping you for tomestones and second chance points).
If you're satisfied by the difficulty level of normal, hooray. If you want something harder, move on to EX trials. Harder than that and requiring more coordination are Savage raids.
Ok well outside of normal. Normal is pretty easy.
do min level no echo early savage/extreme if you don't have max level or want to do early raids. It is still gimped experience, but at least the mechanics will somewhat matter.
If you have max, just go into current savage.
>not missing much
>most interesting raids in game
Look at PFs. Find beginner/learning parties. Join. Let them know you're new and see if it's okay with them. If it is, you're golden.
just queue for them. The raids are piss easy on normal.
Are you a girl?
You probably would want to get a feel for things and do EXs first or maybe even pug the first boss of the tier if you are confident enough. Look for PFs for beginners and people are usually pretty helpful. Past that I would look for a static which is easier said than done and usually will have you using shit like Discord. Still the pay off of a static is immensely helpful.
Right now isn't a too bad time to start trying though since the tier has matured enough that its only a matter of learning a couple strategies per boss, thought I don't know how hard it will be to make groups, you might have to just form them yourself.
i haven't even done barbara normal yet
Out of the new ones? Just Reaper, will probably get Astrologian eventually. Total I have uhh... Summoner Book and Bard Bow from ARR, Ast/DRK/SMN from HW, nothing from Stormblood and I quit the Shadowbringers DRK relic when I saw the last step and how ugly it looked, just destroyed all my motivation to finish it.
>no you do not understand if they put real rewards to all the new content types they're adding that aren't just more minions and mounts to be lost in your minion catalog people would feel PRESSURED to PLAY THE VIDEO GAME and that causes anxiety and is no good!
lol
lmao
And in the end Criterion is just basically a regular dungeon but with Extreme primal level of jump-rope, because the devs don't know how to do anything else, only there's no reason to actually do it more than once.
not a once have i ever seen a guy run in and flail his dick around about lazy devs and simon says, and actually have a suggestion for what should be done differently
it's always just whining it's not another game
What they should've done for dungeons specifically is that they should've been more open with tighter timer so you have to plan your way through the dungeon, maybe mob positions change between instances because you know it's fricking variant and shit, the bosses are fine, they're never going to deviate from preset timelines because that's the only thing their engine can handle, but once again "difficult" content requires no crowd control, no interrupts, this isn't a real MMO, it's a tab-targeting action game.
>because the devs don't know how to do anything else
true. titan was funny back in ARR but now every boss fight is just dancing around.
>go to /xivg/
>see this
Ganker really is the only place to talk about this game isnt it?
You can't even talk about it on Ganker.
xivg is garbage filled with discord posters coordinating the downfall of the general.
Xivg has been like that since 2013-2014, this is nothing new and it's always been poster drama too when that general moved a lot slower before wowrefugees and other gays came along
>wowrefugees
70% of all players since ARR are from WoW. What are you calling wowfugees are the people from asmongold.
You're really new if that's particularly shocking or disgusting.
Unironically /mmog/ on /vg/ is the best place to talk about it right now. It's not great but the best we have.
sch/whm is better then sch/ast
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
Unsubbed
>Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
Unsubbed
> Progress on criterion dungeons?
Unsubbed
FFXIV is the first mmorpg where I unsubbed so many times.
I was really happy with the foundation they did with ARR after the 1.0 disaster. But they jumped the shark with Shadowbringers. I miss the times where could no life mmorpgs and still had enough gameplay to do.
Even Guild Wars 1 was more mmorpg than FFXIV.
>FIGHT DESIGN IS SO BBBBBAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDD
>okay what should they do instead
>*crickets*
every
single
thread
>>okay what should they do instead
Do what old mmorpgs did. Long, worthwhile grinds, don't focus too much on a bad story or atleast have good written and straight to the point dialogues. And don't make side content that is completly seperated from the quest.
People only did things like island sanctuary because it came with a new update and most people have nothing to do.
>it's a tab-targeting action game.
let me fix it for you:
FFXIV is a TAB-TARGETING DANCING GAME
>FFXIV is a WoWclone
shortened that for you
WoW has real dungeons
kek
KEK
BRD is still the best dungeon ever made.
its an instanced zone, not a dungeon
>never again gonna have the experience of uninstanced instances in early Mangos era of WoW private servers when the opposite faction could jump at you at any time
It's a instanced dungeon. That was one of the main features of vanilla wow. Instead of every player runs through the dungeon a instance for your grp was created. And Blizzard did it really good. The shit was mind blowing back in 2004.
Now you got teleported to some place without visual connection.
its not a dungeon. its too big. dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork, like ragefire chasm, deadmines, wailing caverns, blackfathom deeps, shadowfang keep, stockades, razorfen kraul, scarlet monastery (x4), razorfen downs, uldaman, maraduon, dire maul, zul'farrak, temple of atal hakkar, scholomance, stratholme, blackrock spire, etc. i can keep going into later expansions if you want
>its not a dungeon. its too big. dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork
Look up a map of any Everquest dungeon
wow is more relevant to the topic as A: its much, much larger and B its design philosophies are adapted in FFXIV
>but its older
but its not more influential is it. this is why dungeons in both games are like scarlet monastery wings
>everquest
>not more influential
Zoomies were a mistake.
so tell me, why are FFXIV dungeons hallways, modern wow dungeons are hallways, lost ark dungeons are hallways, new world dungeons are hallways, while EQ has uninstanced zones with raid bosses that appear in them?
why are all the ffxiv dungeons scarlet armory wing and not darkwood keep?
I never saw bigger moron.
my goalpost is more relevant because A: I picked it up and B: I moved it
stupid fricking nig
>dungeons are hallways with a possible meaningless fork
You are too young to post here
meaningless forks are soul zoomie
BRD is the perfect dungeon. A great mix between old school everquest and the modern approach of WoW.
AND I would enjoy a DEEP rush in a dungeon of female miqo'te BRD. If you know what I mean.
M+ is unironically the greatest content type ever added to an MMO
Are you enjoying your melee dps suffering cause a random bolt spawned?
>long worthwhile grind
What MMO had that?
>Asherons Call
>Everquest
>FFXI
>RO
>Lineage 2
>Dark Age of Camelot
>Star Wars Galaxies
>Vanilla WoW somehow
FFXI
FFXI was pure comfiness to grind with other people. I still in contact with many XI guys from the past.
In XIV every FC (or discord) is full with people who are social outcasts in their late 20s/early 30s and doing night life rp because they never had a real youth.
They need to add another eureka like zone without the leveling down bullshit because there is nothing else to do after you finish the tier.
More randomized fight sections where you actually have to react on the fly and dodge shit. Basically make it so the fights are dynamic and not the same choreographed Simon says dance. But they can't because the engine would shit itself and the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
Just PVP.
Just play a better game
Well, yea.
In other words
>like most modern mmorpgs our game has not enough content thats worthwhile of your time
>BUT do you know your house will be destroyed after 1,5 months if you don't enter it
I hate yewish-p so much
Simply don't buy a house? You don't need them for anything besides playing barbie
auto-demolish has been disabled for a good while now. also, why buy a house, you homosexual?
>I hate how israeli Yoshida is being
>I want to play this game without having to subscribe and pay money and get it for free and never lose anything of value ever
>>I want to play this game without having to subscribe and pay money and get it for free and never lose anything of value ever
anon never said anything like that
Would you rather be held hostage by mandatory grinds instead of being encouraged to jump in and out at your leisure whenever you feel like catching up with msq and doing some current content?
No mmo can organically keep people playing all the time.
>FFXIV
>PvP
You may not like it, but PVP is the exact solution to that problem since it's full of randomness. PVE is structured for balance and performance and equality. PVP is where a team at 1500 points mid game ends up losing to 2nd place which only had 400 points mid game. And all with a bunch of randoms on Onsal pre-PLD cheese nerf. It's beautiful chaos.
>But they can't because the engine would shit itself
They had to delete the belt slot because they couldn't create more items.
And the polygon flower pot thing was a marketing lie of Yoshi-P.
>But they can't because the engine would shit itself and the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
this isn't why, the reason is because the enrage timers are tightly tuned in a way where randomness could lead to patterns where its literally impossible to do enough damage in time with the minimum amount of gear required to enter the fight, which is what happened in gordias when they had fights that were more randomized and it was so shitty it almost killed the raiding scene in this game
>because the enrage timers
Where a mistake from the beginning
And gordias was great and the raid community of XIV is full with shitters.
yea gordias was maxx-kino
>gordias was great
Peak contrarianism holy shit
Spoken like a true troony
Complete list of people who didn't like Gordias
>Scrubs getting filtered by actually having to manage stances in A3S
>Race autists mad about no week 1 clears
you will never get an asian mmo without enrage timers after all those people practically killed themselves taking double digit hour sessions with no breaks trying to do content in games like ff11 or various korean mmos
Bro you can just make it extremely lenient to account for randomness. Fights that require actual execution skill and improvisation are way more fun than ball crushing enrage timers that require you to open Excel and plan out every GCD and movement in advance.
The real difficulty in XIV raids is doing them blind and solving the puzzles, but 99% of players just use pre-solved strats, it's fricking boring
>enrage timers are bad
>but somehow Gordias was good
When roleplaying at least do the bare minimum research so you don't contradict yourself.
Yes no other MMO has ever solved this problem. moron.
>the reason is because the enrage timers are tightly tuned in
Black person are you dumb? Have you learn nothing about the p8s fiasco with the nerf? They literally don't test enrage properly
They play their game better than raidergays
>the graphics would be 500ms behind the actual hitboxes
Already feels like there's >900ms delay.
>do a fight for the first time or after a while so I forget the choreography
>circle appears on the ground
>activate sprint and skidaddle the frick away
>join others in the safe spot
>orange circle disappears
>boss does his big smash and particles appear on the formerly orange circle
>me standing among others: die
How can anyone take the fight seriously in this game is beyond me.
And then you get the absolute peak morons who start defending it "like just learn the fight dood, that's what the skill is about dood".
Insstead of dodging mechanics and shit, I need to remember left right left left behind forward... yeah, frick you.
Please try any difficulty beyond an extreme trial
Randomized fight sections do not work with the game's current design philosophy esp in terms of healing. This change could be a good or a bad thing, but unless the 'randomized' sections were pretty much what we have with p8 i.e. a series of different patterns in random order and/or on random roles (which is what you get in most end savage and ultimate fights), it would just not work. It seriously fricks up mitigation, healing and movement plans for casters and can potentially frick up bursts for melees. You're basically asking for a completely different game.
drop console support and make it actually play like a game from this decade, with fluid and responsive combat instead of this moronic delay shit
Consoles are over 50% of the playerbase
"what do you mean this turd tastes like a turd? Only a chef can judge food by taste"
you fat frick
best raid song since Locus
The songs of XIV are so lame and annoying.
>oh another both theme with lyrics
>yaaaawn
I'd really loved that if I was a 13 years old girl
>literal filler-tier song of some 6/10 Evanscence album
I like Soken's work and appreciate his effort for trying out different genres, but people will really eat up anything he makes and praise it as the second coming of the lord, no matter how mediocre it is
true. He's not bad. But 99% of this stuff is just mediocre and somehow tame and prudish.
I dislike his remix of endsinger ost also lahabread music of pandemonium
Not necessarily true, a lot of people complained about SHB music quality after 5.0, but the cancer announcement made them shut up.
>a lot of people complained about SHB music
Did they?
Yeah. ShB as horrible field themes and the dungeon boss music is a mess.
XIV in general doesn't have good field themes beyond ARR, Soken is great at hype music but they really need to bring in someone who can handle the calm tunes and put actual background music into the world. ARR gave them some good concepts to build on and FF11 especially was masterful at zone music but for some reason they've let XIV go off the rails and have not tried to improve it.
>He has never stepped foot into the Raktika Greatwoods
Sad
It's memorable because of the memes, not because it's a good fitting song.
Heavensward had some great field themes but that was because it had a lot of guest composers besides Soken.
Two things I want to see moving forward, better field themes and better designs for overworld areas. It's really silly how good some of the dungeons look and yet the overworld is this barren half assed setup.
They remember the high highs, but now the stuff in-between besides raktika because memes. I've never heard ONE person mention the night themes to zones, which felt rewarding to listen to as they tie into the story, and all are vastly superior to their daylight counterparts.
When you finish the first dungeon and unlock Lakeland night theme, it was amazing. Easily one of the most underrated themes.
That's a shame, Ahm Araeng (night) is one of my favorites
What do the ShB night themes do in particular that makes them stand out thematically? They're just somber piano renditions like all the other night themes.
Rakitka was good in spite of the fricking memes, christ you reactionary contrarians are even bigger gays than the housing gays at this rate.
>Soken's work
He didn't even make this song
Soken didn't make the track you moron. Soken did White Stone Black.
that'd be white stone black
scream is not stuck in my head
Based
WSB is great and the kind of track you want droning in the background while raiding
Finished the easy variant dungeons and got the mount. Had to do the secret stuff by myself since trying to direct a PUG to do them is like herding cats
Coils are the only good XIV raids.
I unsubbed after finishing Shadowbringers because the sheer amount of fricking cutscenes and "right click this spot and wait 15 seconds while your guy looks around" types of quests just fricking killed my enjoyment. The gameplay for reaper and black mage is fun but when you only get to fight 25% of the time and the other 75% is just listening to some butthole talk about JRPG shit, it just makes you burn out quick
I started to skip the story mid shadowbringers and never regret it. I'm just playing XIV for gameplay and doing raids or old content with my boys.
Story of EW or even the new Hildy one? No idea. It's just too text heavy. And I love games like Baldurs Gate 2, etc. But damn XIV is so bad written.
The point of all the dialogue is that the writers are inviting you to create a world inside of your head that you can explore and live in. This concept is totally alien to people who grew up with cell phones that killed their attention span and imagination, but it’s actually possible to use your imagination and create your own interesting headcanon while the story nudges you along. A ton of effort was put into making FF14 a mostly self-consistent and deep world-building experience.
It’s the type of game for people who read books. I played Baldur’s Gate 2 as well, but it’s not much different from a well-crafted D&D campaign… in other words, another type of game for people who know how to read and have an imagination. It’s not for everyone.
>The point of all the dialogue is that the writers are inviting you to create a world inside of your head that you can explore and live in
>chosen one story where you're forced to have the same experiences as everyone
XI inspired you to create your own world inside your head. XIV was made so it's players didn't need to think much.
>XIV was made so it's players didn't need to think much.
And yet you still have morons skipping everything because they're functionally illiterate.
This players are no morons. They just want the gameplay and not a bad written story. Compare XIV to other FF games. Every FF game (besides XIV) has quirky and straight to the point dialogues. It's fun to read.
>This players are no morons.
kek This post already off to a great start.
>if you skip you're a moron
Having to fall back on attacks because your point was proven wrong. Sad.
see
If you play xiv but don't care about the story at least a little bit, I don't know what you are doing. I really don't.
>XIV was made so it's players didn't need to think much.
This. XIVs story progress is hollywood-like. Just there to please you directly and not a real living world. Background lore is only there to explain the mainstory. Same goes for games like Call of Duty, nu-God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc.
>Background lore is only there to explain the mainstory
A lot of side stuff has nothing to do with the msq though. All those yellow sidequests that little the map? Almost all of those are either self contained stories or offer little tidbits about the world.
>In Baldurs Gate you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
>In Elder Scrolls you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
>In Deus Ex you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
>In souls games you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
>In most RPGs you learn something about the world, places, persons, history and things you will never see ingame
Nothing like this is in XIV. XIV is maximum themepark.
>Nothing like this is in XIV
That's all the little quests with stories attached to them though.
he made a long list of green text anon. you're out of your league. just give up now. don't analyze, just do what he says
No. Everything in XIV ends in "it's there to explain the main story".
The world is dead and feels always artificial.
Hows does a story about a lalafell alliance soldier looking for the fem highlander resistance fighter that captured his heart on the battlefield tie into the msq?
It happens in Eorzea and is therefore tied to the MSQ, checkmate libcuck
It's just ingame npc doing his thing. Do you never played real RPGs? With all the letters, books, etc.?
go to the library, homie
>It's just ingame NPC doing his thing.
Oh yeah. I bet he did his thing all up inside that thighlander. Women can't resist the lalabull.
This. The world is artificial and feels always dead.
You have literally never touched a sidequest and it shows.
inb4 That ARR quest was clearly setting up the stage for the new 6.25 content they had already planned 10 years ago!!
That's all 1.0 stuff. Most lore stuff is still from the 1.0 team and was just reusded from Yoshi-P.
The stuff they made themself is shit. See the whole ascian/amaurot thing.
Amaurot is great, and the Ascian stuff is just the Zilart from FFXI
It makes me sad how many people don't realize this is the truth. Hopefully they borrow Wotg or Adoulin for the next arc.
Another zodiark Black person mad the fujo turned the mustache twirling saturday morning cartoon villains into tragic characters.
This is true. All the Eorzean city-states have strange and obvious distinctions that separate them from modern cultures. All their governments are strange and operate in strange ways. Every nation and culture introduced outside of Eorzea is an expy of a real-world culture and either a kingdom or, god forbid, another fricking republic.
>All the Eorzean city-states have strange and obvious distinctions that separate them from modern cultures. All their governments are strange and operate in strange ways.
Is this homie for real?
The only one you can say that about is gridania and that's only because they have the schizo elementals to worry about.
Ul'dah is technically a monarchy but in function it's actually a theo-plutocracy run by a church of death and taxes. Commerce is very literally their religion, and that influences their society in unique ways beyond it just being ancap paradise.
Limsa barely has a system of government. They didn't have real written laws until around 15 years ago. Their ruler is decided by a boat race every 7 years, but Merlwyb decided term limits don't apply to her, wrote a bunch of laws, and turned Limsa into a military dictatorship that somehow also idolizes freedom.
>some cultic tree huger state
>some "we were good pirates" states
>some fantasy arabian night states contolled by merchants
Yes, 1.0 states were better than Yoshi-Ps things. Even the garlean empire became demystified. From the massive super power to some we wuz farmers and shit BUT
>okay they're not actually that special
>b-but!
I accept your concession.
Not the same anon but he's right. the garleans are just farmers that got strong because remember us-kun made them strong.
Everything after HW killed the XIV story. Now the whole story is a huge mess.
>Not the same anon but
Shut the FRICK up, samegay.
We don't know yet if Emet had anything to do with the Garleans when they were still the Gougans, and the Gougans made all sorts of incredible shit that goes way beyond their Garlean tech. Their time as farmers only came after they accidentally the ocean.
>there's a giant hole in the middle of the ocean
>nobody ever talks about it
if you don't talk about or think about the hole it can't hurt you. naming it gives it dominion over you
Didn't talk or think about a sad bird either and that didn't seem to work
>UGH MUH SOVLFVL PIRATES, MUH SOVLFUL FRENCH CRVSADERS, MVH SOVLFUL DESERT israeliteS, MUH SOVLFUL SVBSAHARAN AFRICANS
yeah no you fricking moron only Gridania has a novel concept behind it everything else has been done to death in fantasy already
sad but true
And no one will apologize like they should.
Void archdemons is boring the ancient shit wasnt so original and a lot better but i was made well in ShadowBlack folk, now endwalker frick it up all revealing ancients were just greek elves without long necks and knife ears
anon you're clearly a shadowbaby or EWfetus, XIV's lore is remarkably internally consistent wherever the fujo didn't rub her dirty hands on things. you would only not realize this if you've only played the fujo expansions.
we've known about the war between ul'dah and sil'dih since at least 2014, and it literally just got 12 pages of lore dump that expand on what we know in interesting ways without retconning anything we knew before.
see
What the frick are you talking about? You learn a tonne of random lore about places that aren’t in the game yet. Just right off the top of my head we had Thavnairian items and clothes for years before they were in the game, the current plot constantly makes mention of Merycidia (and has since ARR) and the entire BLU questline revolves around the new world.
Amaurot was that until fujo frick it.up with MUH TIME TRAVEL CAUSE FF1 WAS A TIME LOOP ASPULL IN THE POWERPOINT ENDING EXPLAINING SHIT IN NES
>The point of all the dialogue is that the writers are inviting you to create a world inside of your head that you can explore and live in.
>FFXIV
>How many relic weapons do you have yet?
1 for WAR because it's my main job, but now I'm trying to get the Gunblade because it looks great
>Gotten anywhere in beast tribes?
It's only been 2 days
>Progress on criterion dungeons?
haven't even tried it. I was hoping that ASS normal was gonna be EX tier, but I've heard that the first boss is harder than most Savages so far, and I don't have a group, nor am I fricking PFing that shit.
As for the Variant dungeons, already got all of the endings, the skink and the silkie minion, the emote, and the chest for the fedora outfit. Still need the rest of the outfit and 2 TT cards
pretty good patch overall
>but I've heard that the first boss is harder than most Savages so far
They lied to you
>first boss is harder than most savages
No… it’s not even harder than the current fights which are easy until Big H
>I hate how the msq is just talking
>btw I skipped all the extremes
I did the Stormblood and Shadowbringers extremes homosexual, doesn't save the game from catering to Limsa Lominsa AFK trannies taking pictures of their catgirl or rabbit for Instagram
This thread will die like every XIV thread with critiqe from real XIV players because they lunatics can't stand it.
I'm far from obtaining the weapon since I was successfully ignoring the memebrand quests until now (and still far from completing it).
But what are the next phases of the weapons now that there's no dedicated zone tied to it?
Will be the same as the ARR and HW relics
Daily reminder: If you don't have at least these two your opinion is worthless.
XIV fishing is suffering from the same problem like everything else in XIV. Just bloat it to make it look complex. I still prefer fishing like the one from Lotro or WoW.
Just find a comfy spot, click sometimes and enjoy the atmosphere.
But you can do exactly that... Grab a versatile lure and you can Cast and then Reel every 20-30 seconds or so. If you're really casual you also have the incentives of getting new fish every now and then or personal fish size records without putting in any effort.
Fishing is for homosexuals and toxic casuals snowflaking so hard they come full circle.
I really hope Endwalker doesn't have another "haha now you've got to idle in here until the next spawn window" fish like Lancet.
Big Fish isn't rare anymore, It's fricking everywhere now because they made FSH piss easy now the only thing stopping you is timegated fishes
lol only trannies care about titles. good job outing yourself troon.
Only troons call other trannies
Bonus points for fish that is incredibly rare to spawn and then spawns at bad times.
predict the patch he comes back in
The end of the Omicron quests when it's revealed that his wish made Elysion so we could have a place to explore and do stuff because we're his friend
They would never be brace enough to make a tribal quest that kino
all the omicron quests have been datamined already gay
the plenty folks are the last to join
He's not coming back, anon.
Let him go.
7.x or 7.0 ending
he wont come back trannie homosexual.
>try to make "midcore" content that doesn't require 20+ players
>due to isync everyone only wants raid BiS
>no rewards or gear for doing the harder version as alternate gearing
Lmao bravo Yoshida. We're absolutely going back to Eureka next expansion.
what's the brand of the wine?
This is one of the few good XIV threads. No troony posting, no ERP posting and only a few yoshi-p wienersuckers.
>my WoL is so unique and special
what was up with that. I just skipped everything.
>moron can't be bothered to do a 15 min long quest
I think the one on the left is malfunctioning.
Im pissed i cant glam the child from previous saints wake ,would make more sense than the middie b***h
>make npc use generic player character stuff
>oh but lets give her a hair color option players can't have
character creation update when
There is a cat that uses fem middie iddle animation.
Criterion and especially Criterion Savage should have had a better reason to do it. Even item level 625 gear or something. The relics should have at least been 616 or something so it's not just an EX weapon. I get they didn't want to piss off raid autists by changing BiS but letting it be catch up content or have any real reward besides an ugly mount would've been better. I did it just to do it, but I'm also moronic enough to have done every raid BLU can even shit like Chaos and Cruise Chaser for the experience of doing it so I don't really consider it "normal" behavior.
Not passing off raiders is such a canned excuse. What raider isn't alresdy BiS by now or close to it that they wouldn't be bothered? If someone is starting, not raiding actively, or just bad then so what? Them having a higher ilvl isn't going to magically make them a better raider or "devalue" a week one clear or something. XIV has always been the easiest game to catchup in.
>have a healer deficit problem
>have the chance to create content to help people gear up other jobs, which might encourage people to try different jobs
>"Nah, here's another mount"
Bruh
They want to drag out raider subs as much as possible.
hildibrand sucked this time around. cutscenes were wackier than ever but feels like nothing happened. took us essentially 2 patches just got hildy back to eorzea proper
Also the guest npc is just an average conspiracy guy instead of a poor guy loosing his shit i dunno put a fricking racist garlean of the moon as third npc for better comedy
Delion is based and redpilled and instantly picked up that Hildibrand is using the Echo.
>He calls the moon an artificial space vessel built by an ancient civilisation
/misc/ is always right
Reject sleepo, return to tradition white man.
>Chad Thunderwiener has joined your party
Remember that you can still get banned for doing sleepo purgation using the nono markers bc the devs are morons
No you can't, the arena changes after the kill now so you can place the markers.
It is still unclear if the devs can tell if my og markers are legit or not and if that’s bannable. They aren’t legit and Ive been using them every week. I guess after this change no one will care
the same announcement that said they banned the guy who made them also said you can use them with no repercussions moron
Well that one guy felt some repercussions
because he cheated
I wish they killed this strat by just making the wind aoes a bit bigger or something, to many morons making it P8S and shitting up the place.
You say that like harvests aren't the only somewhat hard part of the slog that is P7S.
>the story? nah bro. I just play for the gameplay.
But xiv's gameplay is trash. I mean, sure I enjoy doing the little dance that is job rotations, but overall the actual gameplay of xiv is garbage. I don't know why anyone would play it if you're not invested in the setting and/or story.
why do ffxi players go into other game's threads to try to recruit people? is 10% is not enough? you need to crack their eggs first? why do they never mention its pay 2 win?
I fricking love him bros, what the frick? How can any minion possibly compete?
I got the big boy myself.
Bro? Your attendee #777?
You've been replaced as the little aquatic race.
>replaced
I think you mean recycled.
Shit tier.
Can't sit on you and has no unique interaction.
Based fellow troll-enjoyers.
One day we'll get an Aerslaent expansion and see the trolls in their natural habitat.
Tora-jiro.
would
that's not the red panda
Thats not my homie the Shaggy Stoat
>1500 tomes for weapon
>that's it
huh, I was expecting more, guess the steps after will require a bit more
The first step is always a freebie the grinding starts with the next one
>The first step is always a freebie
spotted the newbie
>always a freebie
only the ShB one can be considered a freebie, the rest require effort to get the weapon started
first relic quest in ARR:
People like you are moronic. We got a wonderful and well written Hildibrand story PLUS grinding 1,500 tomes.
Why you just want pure gameplay?
and Soken had cancer while Yoshi-P was crying on the stage... again.
SOVL SOVL SOVL SOVL SO MVCH FVCKIN SOVL God fricking damn I miss quests actually being QUESTS FRICK. Maybe I should quit, was holding out on Criterion dungeons but it's not at all what was promised, just another savage raider toy to one and done.
Of course you should quit, anon. Also, play Nioh 2.
Funny that yoshitpiss has a default character made in nioh2 character creator
>Oh you thought Criterion savage didn't have enough rewards?
>There you go: For the next relic step go and clear it 15 times
>picrel
Many such cases!
Relics used to have a specific grind per step, but since SHB and arguably SB they've done frick all. It's pretty sad.
Femlalas are the most beautiful and desirable maidens in all of Eorzea and beyond.
yeah maybe in the shard with the cerebral palsy calamity
>the only thing the warring homies needed to solve their world-ending conflict was a chat and some salad
Frick's sake, they took one of the visually and thematically coolest dungeons and completely neutered it with this "we can save them" bullshit. God I fricking hate Japan.
>NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST FIND COMMON GROUND WITH YOUR BITTER ENEMY! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HATE THEM UNCONDITIONALLY BECAUSE... YOU JUST ARE OKAY?!
What american politics does to an mf'er
>t. globohomosexual shitizen
The war's over, son. Grab a hoe and let's do some plowing.
Of course, I'm talking about your mother haha.
So why don't we just Dynamis-resurrect every failed civilization in the universe?
They're unkillable dynamis recreations all stuck together on a pile of shit at the edge of the universe who can't hurt one another in any way that matters, there's nothing for them to do except get along. All the originals are still long dead.
They're ghosts who are aware that their blind hatred towards each other ultimately destroyed their entire race
>be anon
>die in an apocalyptic war that consume your entire species
>suddenly granted another chance at life
>but so was one of those guys you don't like
>WELP BETTER START THE WAR UP AGAIN
American moment
Really makes you wonder how the antagonists would be treated if the game were made by mutts.
Anon ultima thule become dynamis hope shit at the end you have thancred teared as ambient ether by shit villian as the scions and then you pull emet ex machina
Its literally telling warmongering phantoms to go touch/eat grass. Its fricking hilarious.
Which tanks are the most chad and the least chad and in what order?
Chad
>tanks that give a frick what other people think is chad
>>Most Chad
>tanks that like their job
chad tanks: WAR, PLD, DRK, GNB
not chad tanks: none
if you're tank friend you're a chad simple as. the only person truly looking out for you is your other tank bro remember this. take this heart of corundum friend you need this brutal shell more than I do.
I never played any class besides tank classes and FSH.
Be completely honest, how would you feel is they aged up the twins?
They'd look hideous like most Elezen then.
Maybe if they take the opportunity of the 7.0 update to actually revamp their necks and animations.
Please god give lalafell more shapely waists or teeny mosquito bite breasts or SOMETHING
If alisae is sexy and grow up her personality i would like it
id suck alphinauds dick.
>godbert is pro 2nd amendment
The whole MCH questline is also an argument for the second amendment.
I have done nothing. Currently taking a break. Im burnt out on the game.
>casually duo-ing the variant dungeon with my best friend, trying to solve all of the riddles and secrets on our own with the hints in the survey reports
comfy
only the main one now, thanks for giving it to me a week after I got my 620 weapon yoship
bloodsworn with elephants, don't have any DoL/DoH past 60 and don't know if BTs alone can carry me to cap
very first got the "secret" ending with that bullshit boss who does the cannons
second one instead of honoring the fallen hero just woke him up and downed him
friend I ran with the first time got the pet and I got the TT card
don't know if I'll have the patience to run this thousands of times for that entire set, but kind of want to use the coat to make a flasher glam
One of the first story fricks up was the kugane/yugiri thing
>thx to gerolt we now that stuff like radz-at-han exists.
>some mysterious refugees from an unknown country appeared
>nooo my face is so ugly I can't show
>we have horses
>some hours later thx to stormblood we know that fantasy japan was always trading with cities like radz-at-han which always traded with Ul'dah too.
>BUT KUGAN WAS UNKNOWN
>and where are the horses?
Yoshi-P and thew new team is so moronic. Or they have so many writers and everyone is doing his own thing.
>some hours later thx to stormblood we know that fantasy japan was always trading with cities like radz-at-han which always traded with Ul'dah too.
This was known since 1.0 because of the summer and New Years events.
>BUT KUGAN WAS UNKNOWN
Kugane was known, Hingashi was first named in 1.0 I'm pretty sure. It's just the Au Ra they pretended were unknown until turning around and acting like they weren't.
>and where are the horses?
They're on the Azim Steppe mostly.
>They're on the Azim Steppe mostly.
This are no steppe horses. whm unicorns without horn and looking like some parade horse.
They have so many writers and all of them are morons until they prove their writing at msq ( fujo fricked up endwalker lets see the new gay)
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FF14 the Game with the most Soul that Filters Ganker morons hard.
i love it.
The game just has a genuine and earnest feel to it that filters a lot of westoids, mostly americans. They can't handle good guys actually being good, or not being given 1 dimensional villains that they can just hate and feel good about killing.
But Americans love subversive villains.
They also love dehumanizing their enemies to the point they only exist to be destroyed so they can feel good.
i fricking hate the snake gazes in p8
>static still wipes on snake 1 half the time after a month of prog
Love these people but by god they suck at this game
Just miss the gcd, it already got nerfed
>Scroll through thread
>Zero(0) pictures of Yugiri
Fine, fine, I’ll do it.
>friends keep getting mad about criterion
>PF disband at rat still
Unfortunate. Guess I'm watching a guide.
I felt like such a fricking moron when I realized you had to keep moving to not get frozen by the ice tail
Same, don't think I've seen that combined with a line aoe.
>P8S kill party
>People wiping to dominion multiple times
I can't do this anymore, next tier I will find a static.
>t. 0 addle casts
No amount of addle will save us if you miss the tower you mongoloid
Cheer up, anon. You've got 6 months before next tier 🙂
I bigger boobs and butt ingame. Especially for femras.
mods and customize+
No I want to show them off to other players in-game
prostitute
>defending bozja
fricking matsuno dickriders go kys. holy shit what a piece of shit exploration zone so badly hated by the japs they dont make another one.
Filtered. Duels were absolute kino.
kys
shame its ruined by awful writing and implementation. homosexuals like to cry FILTERED like some mongolian brained russian homosexual.
the essences were great.
>the content is bad because i don't like the story
kys homosexual.
Bozja is bad in all aspects
>bad story
>horrible visuals
>glorified fate zone
>mediocre raid dungeon
>This scares the Bozja hater
kys homosexual.
Duels were the only good part amd they ruined them after one patch. If you didn't get Sword of the South before 5.45, you did NOT beat the game.
One the contrary, they made clearing normally even more impressive. I'd get shit ton of /tells or just praise in shout whenever I'd clear on them on WHM.
no you didnt heal homosexual. stop making shit up.
You're just jealous of my 500k+ misery hits. I bet you tried flare star cheesev and still died like a total homosexual while everyone laughed at you and hated you for not giving them the mettle buff
bozja is shit no one cares.
LOL it made clearing more common, not impressive.
It made flare cheese common, which I saw more people frick up than actually clear with. Bozja duels were also much more challenging so yes doing them normally was more satisfying to watch
no it wasnt moron. youre a stupid israelite.
I liked the lost actions system. Shame all the in-depth systems are put in side content.
The system was some good shit.
>Endless Despair spam on BLM
>Paper tank that needed CD's to live through raidwide but shit out damage
>Ripping all the Enmity from a well placed Afflatus Misery
And instead of giving us a vastly improved version, we got a bigger dungeon with shit rewards. The side content this expansion has been disappointing as frick so far.
What's the best way to get Astronomy? Expert Roulette?
hunt train is the best
Uh Global Citizens, or as I like to call them, Global SHITizens need to leave the Last Dregs.
Is this the only criterion dungeon of the expansion? I just hope they tie relic grind to this content.
every other patch. i hope the isghard one has anyone other than aymeric. frick him
two more are being added in 6.4 and 6.5
They might do it for Variants
Criterion, not so much. Unless it eventually gets an unsync option in the future, otherwise it'll be dead like DRS in the future.
Why the frick haven't they added an unsync option in DRS?
bozja is trash. they didnt make one this expansion since it was so hot garbage.
DRS is more active after datacenter travel was introduced, not sure about other datacenters but EU datacenters have a total of 3-4 active discord servers that have weekly DRS runs.
>discord
literally the only way
Why the frick haven't they converted Castrum/Delubrum/Dalriada to convetional alliance raids and put them in the roulette?
because bozja is trash.
I can understand the first and third since that gives a reason to use the open field. But there's 0 reason DR & DRS shouldn't be unsyncable.
DR regular can allegedly be done by like 4 or 5 people with the right LA setups, and it does have an echo function for undersized groups
It's a struggle to get 4-6 people even on PF. DRS is a whole different ballgame.
dr pfs fill up fast. dr homosexuals who read redd1t guides and insist on specific jobs and essences never fill up.
no way, 90% of the playerbase can't clear this criterion dungeon so they'll probably make relic grind related to variants which are much easier i just hope they keep this level of difficulty for criterions
They are reusing scrapped Garlemand expansion assets in the upcoming Deep Dungeon.
cringe but better than allaghan reuse i suppose. i hope thats not the north of tresure vaults meme emet mentioned.
the patch came out ? sheeeeit i havent had a reason to login for a long time
>create twitter account to post pictures of my cute character
>wake up and see 40 replies to it
>super excited and go check the replies
>it's all nft morons tagging me because some scam account says they'll give them nfts for free and all they have to do is tag someone
>delete twitter
post your cute character NOW
How do I make friends?
I beat Endwalker so I'm just doing whatever quests are left. There's 0 reason to grind for anything as XIV is a visual novel.
Took me 6 months to reach this point, it was fun and the MSQ had some great moments. Heavensward was the best expansion and I miss the simplicity of ARR, but Endwalker's ending was some deep feels even though the build up to the payoff was nowhere near Heavensward-tier which was basically an entire expansion's worth of buildup just to make you like Ishgard and its history.
Hermes' remembered words to Meteion and Emet's last lines were perfectly done even as a dub. It felt like blockbuster moments.
Why didn't they just take the good of both Bozja and Eureka then make some good content?
Because parsetrannies and casuals both cry to no end about them
Explain how to make it good?
Take Eureka's interesting zone (mainly Anemos), expand on NMs, CE and Duels. Add a bit of RNG of something like a key dropping that can unlock a hidden unique dungeon that gives unique loot. Have a small middle section of the map with PvP where you lose some currency on death (I don't give a frick about balance here) amd making grinding out side of weekly/daily challenges somewhat worth it. Seems like a good starting point
>I don't give a frick about balance here
See CC PvP complaints
Having PvP in a localised part of large PvE map is much different than having a dedicated PvP match. PvP balance is garbage anyway.
PvP balance is literally perfect
>not pictured: needed 300 games played to get to crystal
>tfw I got my first Warsteed my win percentage was 33%
skill issue
Of all the races to mod gigachad face you chose the original gay race
Yeah, the PvP "team" really are hacks
>NIN
>WHM
>Nerfing SCH for no reason
>The obnoxious amount of CC
>Purify and Guard are still fricking gambles
>The god awful maps
>WAR
> MCH
>BLM
>SMN
lol
eurekas great. the only good thing about bozja was the old man.
Bozja also gave us a starry eyed viera waifu that has the hots for WoL. Good or Bad depends on preference, but at least it's notable.
>gyaru bunny
>gyaru redmage
that hack homosexual matsuno sure loves gyaru.
Eureka zones were pretty but Bozja nosedived in that regard. I'm starting to think bozja haters are just hating on whatever content matsuno released even though we have
>ivalice raids (who doesn't like these)
>Critical Engagements
>Duels
>CLL/Dalriada
>DRS
>Lost Actions (I still think lost actions being consumables is a mistake)
>>DRS
No one did this
>I did
No you didn't.
I did. Go cope you raidlogging casual shitter.
Come up with a new insult, holy cow.
So I was dead on, huh?
I don't raidlog, I'm the dreaded VN player
I did it but im pissed how restrictive and nazi is wiping compares to ultimates and the discord shit , the dungeon was good as it was more a functional mmo raid other than fighting one boss in a square and call it raid also lost actions consumables frick that
>ivalice
shit except the chad bangaas
>ces
stupid
>duels
broken and stupid
>cll/dalraida
dead content
>drs
trannie discord
>lost actions
interesting but failed in implementation.
i'm not a fan of his writing, but bozja had stuff I like and the absence of similar content is notable, With it gone, the game practically has nothing for large group of players outside of Alliance Raids now.
>on whatever content matsuno released even though we have
I even don't know who this guy is but Bozja is shit so are the ivalice raids (pretty but the bosses have too much HP)
he a homosexual that never finished anything in his life
>ff12
>ivalice
>bozja
hes trash and so are his fans who dick ride him all the time.
>biofem
>only plays scholar
many such cases
I know a few biofem WARs, 1-2 Drags, 1 BRD. But that's it.
Just beat DSR & criterion. gonna check out criterion savage this weekend.
Criterion Savage seems to be the same as regular Criterion except you get no raises period.
Wait criterion dungeons are out?
And the ASS is shitting on everyone
Doing ASS blind with my friends was the most fun I've had in this game.
Whats the ASS?
Another Sil'dihn Subterrane
There's also Savage ASS
You just know Koji did it on purpose.
Gotcha. So how’s the criterion dungeon? What’s it like?
Embrace the rat, anon.
Like most XIV side content. Dead in 1-2 weeks like island sanctuary.
I haven't done ASS yet but the Variant version is a lot of fun if you try to figure out all the paths on your own.
The first boss is already harder than the first 3 fights of Abyssos Savage (which isn't that impressive but still)
Do Limsa and Gridania even have the same potential for a cool dungeon as Ul'dah had? Gridania can do Gelmorra/Amdapor again but that's kinda overdone at this point.
Limsa could do a seas travel one. There's a lot west we have no idea about.
Gridania has Mooncat culture they've barely touched on. A Keeper Lost Woods dungeon could work.
Because that's what it is.
>Gridania can do Gelmorra/Amdapor again but that's kinda overdone at this point.
But that bit has barely been touched in the past decade
Anon there are four Amdapori dungeons, three Gelmorran dungeons, and Palace of the Dead which has both of them combined.
Yeah and they’re all a fricking decade old. If fricking Allagan can own the past decade of story and spotlight, then my favorite fricking city that gets ZERO FRICKING SPOTLIGHT can get SOME.
Limsa could do more Nym stuff, it'd be nice to see more tonberries.
I don't think they're going there.
We still need to see Locus Amoenus/Corvos which was heavily namedropped in 6.0, and the only other content that could be it for the EW patches is the deep dungeon.
You can adjust to speed of the double tap to fit your controller. Helps a lot. The only issue with controller is targeting can be fricky.
> Do Limsa and Gridania even have the same potential for a cool dungeon as Ul'dah had? Gridania can do Gelmorra/Amdapor again but that's kinda overdone at this point.
Nym
Kobold mountains
Whatever is NORTH of the Kobold mountains (like half the island)
The missing 1.0 Sastasha sister dungeon
West Shroud
Ixal territory between the Shroud and Coeraths
Why does this underground dungeon exploration feel like secret dates with the Sultana?
because you share intimate moments with her alone and its written that way.
>He thinks the next VD will be in gelmorra/nym/amdapor ruins
Lmao, enjoy another Allagan structure
They're obviously going to do starter city nostalgia.
>Ul’Dah is inarguably the most story-important city
>Limsa Lominsa has had a significant amount of story focus in recent expansions at patches
>Gridania gets literally nothing
>Ul’Dah is inarguably the most story-important city
Why?
I probably should have said “starter city”, but because it’s the city thats had the most focus put on it throughout the msq
Oh, then yeah.
if gridania gets any real focus they need to actually do something about the elementals, and if they do that they'd need to actually massively change gridania instead of just having the leader in charge go "we'll be good now :^)", which is too much work for what's objectively the least popular city in the game
The Elementals are said by the Padjal to be fragments of Nophica, so next patch we might get a chance to hear her thoughts on that.
0 relics, Im doing old hildibrand quests and I already have 2 635 weapons
haven't started beast tribes
haven't tried another criterion yet
i was busy with reclears and playing other games
It's time.
Good luck Anon, use the Chum macro
Does anyone here use a Switch controller for PC?
I'm currently using DS5, but it's not as comfortable as the Switch controller for me. Especially the triggers.
I use a Wii U Pro Controller, it feels nice.
To this day I don't understand playing on the controller.
I tried to setup it once but double tapping shoulder buttons to swap bars feels too jarring.
The trick I have is I also enable another bar from holding L2 then R2 and holding R2 then L2. For the first I put general use things like emote, mount roulette, sprint, LB, etc., for the second I make it an exact copy of my upper left double L2. And then double tap R2 is for leftovers or AoE.
So really the double tap L2 is set up to display layout/cooldowns. Plus I put the more common stuff on the basic L2 and R2, and you can also put macros on R3 and L3 (which I did sprint on one, arms length+sure cast on the other).
After played a lot of PSO2 (base game not NGS) on controller, I kinda want to try XIV on controller as well, but it feels kinda wrong to play a MMO like that for my mind.
PSO2 was an exception since I played PSO on controller as well, but for me, a MMO is always M+KB, been playing like this since what...2007?
nobody asked
He did absolutely nothing wrong at all.
He pushed his children away to concentrate on his duty, he took the responsibility of saving their lives and everyone else's incredibly seriously, he blamed you for influencing them into walking constantly towards dangerous situations and kept the secrecy of an apocalypse looming all whilst even travelling to Garlemald, an aggressive recognized enemy, to save as many lives as he could.
He over did the pushing his children away shtick, it's one thing to tell them to frick off they don't know what they're talking about, it's another to disown them
i agree with you i just thought it wasnt needed. alphinaud has grown immensely and this stupid daddys issues arc wasnt needed. maybe for alisaie but not alphinaud. what a waste of time.
based as frick Elezen dad, completely reasonable logic too
> Young Elezens are just ToTfells
of course!
>You can exchange the criterion savage token for a shitty earring, a fricking banner for your house or ONE whole materia X
Giving just the title for the clear and nothing else would've been less insulting kek
>Fourchenault dedicates his life's work to building a space ship that would ensure his children's survival, no matter what, and is so terrified and anxious over their well beings he can't even stand listening to letters on their death defying adventures
>in one timeline the twins just die unceremoniously from the Garleans gassing everyone
His life, assuming Sharlayan weren't as horribly affected by Black Rose because of their preparations, is hilariously tragic in the bad end timeline
I feel the Series S/X controller is perfect for this game.
It's pretty nice, yeah but it also makes me salty that they still haven't ported XIV to Xbox
On one hand, I'm kinda glad the V&C dungeons don't reward gear or upgrades because I would feel like I'd be ""forced"" to run it.
On the other hand, only offered 1 mount (for 20 clears???), materia and 1 housing item for it feel like a fricking slap in the face for how ball busting difficult it is.
is it really that hard? I've been kind of burned out on xiv and not even the patch seemed to have really enough content to come back to.
I only did the first hamster boss and it was a puzzle fight. Im sure if you see a guide it would be easy af otherwise its p hard.
>see hyur with wol new face
>can only think as him as a souless npc
>see the other hyur face
>can only think of that homosexual who post the hyur getting vored
>see ardbert face
>only think as him as an npc
Why the frick Hyur have this problem. I just want to play as a human...
It’s up https://youtu.be/0X1cbPpdRtM
uh oh barrys gonna shit his trousers.
That violin is fricking going.
>Muh different factions like the warring state
>muh dying land
>muh mysterious disease
>muh big empire guy
>muh people behind the scenes manipulating the stuff
>muh we dont like story beat faction
im starting to hate these jap tropes. odin looking like trailer wol is funny though.
>fricking soken
>all that matsuno influence
>battle director from capcom who worked on dmc/monhun/dragon's dogma
>matsuno influence
so its shit and unfinished? no thanks.
is just me or the setting of FFXVI is like the 13th shard before the apocalypse?, like it seems humans using primals for their benefit
no not at all but the hydaelyn voice being a grandmother is funny.
Also has some mystery homie in a robe stirring up shit apparently
>mysteryhomie takes off the hood
>it's just Emet-Selch again
I'd honestly burst out laughing.
>character designer is from 14/11/10
probably the blue haired guy from X
Frick, that looks better than any single-player FF since XII.
They should just give Yoshida full creative control of the franchise already.
uhhhhhh barrybros????
I'm surprised Viera can actually wear the plague mask from the Halloween event
>static only raid on weekends
>people STILL frequently miss raid days because of reasons
should I just leave
This is me but im with actual friends. If they're not really your friends just get out.
Depends on what you want. If you like playing with them and you don't care about the speed of your clears, then you should stay.
If they're just "your static" and you don't really care either way, but you want faster prog, then you should leave.
If you don't leave and you're in the 2nd camp, a few weeks from now you'll probably start to resent them and have a meltie. Better to just say it outright and either ask them to change their schedule so you raid more unlikely, or just find a new group
Preparing for a new roof so 0 yet because I've not made it a super important deal to get the first relic since the grind is for the remainder of the expansion. Variant dungeon was fun to 100% while solo, probably won't touch the Savage ones since they can't be solo queued; nor do the rewards interest me. Beast tribes I've been good on, though, as those are typically always worth doing.
>reading through variant dungeon entries
>an entry from one path tells you about Amalj'aa battle practices
>following that practice on the right path opens a hidden door
>the ending you get from that explains how to get another ending
I forgot how fricking cool it was to explore and discover in an MMO. I feel bad for anybody who had their experience ruined by datamining or spoilers.
>Going through middle path
>Nanamo points out a torn Sil'dihn banner
>Puzzle right after requires you to recreate it
>Even if you fail, the final boss of the route has fruit on the helm, which Nanamo also points out so you'll figure it out for next time
The puzzles were definitely the best part of the variant dungeon. Hopefully they'll keep them for the next ones.
Your path is random after Geryon, and both parts have one half of the sil'dihn banner on them, too.
A friend and I sat down with tinfoil hats and ground out all the endings basically in one sitting, it was genuinely some of the most fun I've had in a long time.
When he accidentally auto-walked past the incense burner and it became untargetable, I went full schizo theory and we got ending 1 as a result.
>People were complaining how the relics will be a joke because Manderville
>PLD relic has the most aesthetic shield in the game
Based Godbert/Gerolt duo silencing the naysayers.
I think most of them are pretty meh. But that shield is pretty good.
I'm exceedingly pleased with almost all of the relics this go of it, especially PLD's which outshines the actual set you get with the armor. Not that I don't like the big slab of steel you get, but a Hylian Shield is just as good
Post nudes of this lala
I will not.
>kill Barbariccia
>Papa Gruff still thinks he's hot shit
Bitch
Also do we and the "survivors" of the Thirteenth really have the right to just restore the shard to how it used to be, when the Voidsent have essentially become the world's new inhabitants and have their own society and sentience?
yea of course you moron. why wouldnt you ? go have a nice day.
t. Emet
The voidsent lost their right to not have an intervention when they repeatedly entered our world in order to feed on our aether.
It's humans who keep inviting voidsent over for them sweet darkness powers though
They get bigger ones through, but the smaller voidsent get through with natural tears as well.
The Voidsent aren't a new civilisation: they're the same souls as before the cataclysm (see Zero, Scarmiglione and Barbariccia). All that restoring the shard would do is cure all these souls of their endless hunger, and restore them to their proper forms.
plus they can die instead of reviving after being killed
Does Yoshi-P have the balls to force players to play all roles, and do all of the ShB role quests, and all of Eden, to continue the MSQ?
The absolute shitstorm of complainers would be entertaining
If they ever make role quests mandatory they will just remove the role requirements. Most of the role quests legit have nothing to do with the role itself.
>Hey, we need magical DPS in Ishgard to help us kill this flying dragon
>Dragon lands and fights grounded the entire and the WoL is assisted by 2 melee
>Hey, we need a ranged to help us kill this flying Blasphemy in Doma
>It fights low to the ground and WoL is assisted by 2 melee and a healer
you'd have to change how the final fight of the SHB healer one works, but wouldn't be hard. iirc you also have to use Provoke at least once in both the shb and ew tank quests
>thread is started by somebody that isn't insane
>amount of poor trolling and morons that respond to poor trolls drops significantly
>no stormblood era jannies deleting the thread as claimed
When will Ra La give unto us her sweetest gift?
>ywn receive the gentle embrace of Ra La's mercy
Why even die?